Held: The decision of the Director of the Human Resources Department of OHIM of 19 December 2007 and the decisions of OHIM of 7 March 2008, in that the latter decisions rejected the applicants’ respective requests that the termination clause in their temporary staff contracts not be applied in respect of competitions OHIM/AD/02/07 and OHIM/AST/0107, are annulled.

Believes that the EU and the United States must urgently deal with short-term challenges of security and longer-term challenges of Kosovo's development with a view to achieving a common objective: a functional state, a multi-ethnic society with strong, functioning institutions and respect for the rule of law; welcomes the fact that for the first time the EULEX Mission to Kosovo will include US police officers; notes that the US Administration will second a number of State Department staff and contractors to the operation in Kosovo and will cover 25 percent of the operating costs of the International Civilian Office (ICO), with the rema ...[+++]inder coming from contributions from the European Commission, and from other states;

The servants referred to in Article 2 of the Conditions of Employment of other servants who are under contract on 1 May 2004 and are appointed as officials after that date shall, on retirement, be entitled to an actuarial adjustment of the pension rights they acquired as temporary servants which takes into account the change in their pensionable age within the meaning of Article 77 of the Staff Regulations.

Where a purification process is involved, the manufacturer must assess whether it may have the potential to concentrate levels of transmissible agents present in the animal starting tissues or derivatives.

- selecting starting materials (tissues or derivatives) considered appropriate regarding their potential contamination with transmissible agents (see 1.2.1, 1.2.2 and 1.2.3) taking into account further processing,

2.2. Seed materials, cell banks, pools of serum and other material of biological origin and, whenever possible, the source materials from which they are derived shall be tested for adventitious agents.